Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Talking Shakespeare
Notes from a Journey
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Talking Shakespeare is a collection of essays on Shakespeare’s plays and politics and their impact in the world today. Originally given as provocative talks on Shakespeare at some of the most prestigious universities, conferences, and theatres around the world, they reflect on the author’s more...
by Enrique Sánchez-Costa
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
From 1890 to 1945, Europe was shaken by political, social, and cultural revolutions brought about by the crisis of modernity. Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud stoked the yearnings of a convulsed era, devastated by the First World War. It was a time when all kinds of alternative and radical models of modernity...
by Nelly G. Kupper
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
This book examines the concept of the gaze in the context of narrative fiction. It argues that the gaze in fiction is a tractable factor, identifying the function of characters by way of the gender. The gaze variance and its connection to memory is not new to literary scholarship, but what has been...
Amazing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postmans Brave New World Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Neil Postman’s most popular work, Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), provided an insightful critique of the effects of television on public discourse in America, arguing that television’s bias towards entertaining content trivializes serious issues and undermines the basis of democratic culture....
Mediated Authenticity
How the Media Constructs Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
This book explores the paradox of mediated authenticity – the idea that our understanding of society is based on mediated representations of reality. Enli argues that mediated authenticity is established through negotiations between producers and audiences in what is coined the ‘authenticity contract’....
Forgotten Places
Critical Studies in Rural Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Forgotten Places: Critical Studies in Rural Education critically investigates and informs the construction of the rural, rural identity and the understanding of the rural internationally. This book promotes and expands the notion of critical understandings of rural education, particularly in the areas...
Sweetwater
Black Women and Narratives of Resilience, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience is a multi-generational story of growing up black and female in the rural south. At times heartbreaking, at times humorous, Sweetwater captures the artistry, strength, language and creativity shared by first-hand accounts of black women in small-town...
The Czech Avant-Garde Literary Movement Between the World Wars
edited by Ondrej Sládek and Michael Heim
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The Czech Avant-Garde Literary Movement Between the Two World Wars tells the little-known story of the renaissance of Czech literary arts in the period between the two world wars. The avant-garde writers during this period broke down the barrier between the elite literary language and the vernacular...
Post-9/11 Representations of Arab Men by Arab American Women Writers
Affirmation and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Post-9/11 Representations of Arab Men by Arab American Women Writers: Affirmation and Resistance examines the portrayals of Arab masculinities in novels published after September 11, 2001, by women of Arab descent in the United States. The book provides a historical account of the mainstream representations...
Shakespeare Relocated
Studies in Historical Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
In Shakespeare Relocated, Hugh Macrae Richmond uses his previously published essays to illustrate the development of modern attitudes towards religion, politics, and sexuality. He traces the complex evolution from classical and medieval sources to Reformation and Renaissance ones by reviewing literary...
Moral Talk Across the Lifespan
Creating Good Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Grounded in path-breaking research but written in an accessible, engaging style Moral Talk Across the Lifespan explores how our most fundamental moral commitments are shaped by crucial conversations with family members, romantic partners, and friends. Taking a lifespan approach, the authors demonstrate...
Algerian Literature
A Readers Guide and Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
The only up-to-date and comprehensive text and reader of Algerian literature available in English, Algerian Literature: A Reader’s Guide and Anthology offers the reader a historical and critical overview of the literature from the early twentieth century to the present, introduces Algerian authors,...
Los agravios de la letra
La letra colonial y la formación de la alteridad afro-andina [Siglos XVI, XVII y XIX]
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Este estudio explora la representación de la población negra en tres diferentes textos correspondientes a Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia (Alto Perú a finales del periodo colonial). La naturaleza heterogénea de estos textos constituye la base y dirección de este trabajo; esta diversidad permite observar...
Textos de los «Lieder» de Richard Strauss
Enfoque poético-musical
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Esta obra es una verdadera composición artística, que cuida el ritmo del lenguaje con un léxico erudito. Y si bien parte de un examen científico minucioso, el mundo interior y creativo de la autora traduce su prosa con dinámica ágil y atractivos ejemplos poético-musicales.
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